Institutionalized exaggeration
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
Even before reading Herrera’s defense, I would have sided with Ronquillo, and nothing in Herrera’s column convinces me that I would have been wrong to do so. For a start, having stated that many who write about the labor movement have little understanding of it, he goes on to write of both the TUCP’s affiliation to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and its links to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). It seems to have slipped Herrera’s memory that when the ITUC was formed in 2006, the ICFTU ceased to exist.
Coverage by CBAs, says Herrera, is not the only measure of trade union membership and, indeed, not all CBAs are registered with the Department of Labor. Okay, let’s be generous and hypothesize that the TUCP has 230,000 members covered by CBAs and that the other labor centers account for the remainder. This has two implications. First, because many of the registered CBAs actually pertain to non-TUCP unions, it follows that many of those not registered must be those of TUCP affiliates. If this is so, and as Herrera agrees that all CBAs should be registered, can’t the TUCP do something about this?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111018com5.html
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ang katotohanan ang magpapalaya sa bayan. magpakatotoo, herrera.
"The TUCP is not the only labor organization to inflate its membership figures. Exaggeration is institutionalized throughout a movement which, as it denies the unvarnished truth, also denies the urgent necessity of organizing itself out of the crisis it so obviously faces."
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